12-letter words containing g, o, m, p
- gamophyllous — having leaves united by their edges.
- gamosepalous — having the sepals united.
- germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
- germanophobe — a person who hates or fears Germany, Germans, or German culture.
- ghost shrimp — a shrimplike crustacean of the genus Callianassa, of the Pacific coast of North America, having a pinkish, transparent body.
- glamour puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- glamour-puss — a person with an unusually attractive face.
- gospel music — a now popularized form of impassioned rhythmic spiritual music rooted in the solo and responsive church singing of rural blacks in the American South, central to the development of rhythm and blues and of soul music.
- gossipmonger — a person especially fond of or addicted to gossiping.
- gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
- halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
- harmonograph — an instrument using a system of pendulums to produce geometric images
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- high polymer — a polymer composed of a large number of monomers.
- hippodroming — (baseball) present participle of hippodrome; Staging games to suit gamblers, especially baseball.
- home posting — an appointment to a position within one's own country
- hypogastrium — the lower and median part of the abdomen.
- hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- iambographer — a person who writes iambs
- impassioning — Present participle of impassion.
- impetiginous — a contagious skin disease, especially of children, usually caused by streptococcal bacteria, marked by a superficial pustular eruption, particularly on the face.
- implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.
- imposingness — The quality of being imposing.
- impregnation — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- karyomapping — a technique for determining whether an embryo has inherited a genetic defect by analysing DNA taken from it and its close relatives
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
- loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
- looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
- lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
- magnetopause — the boundary between the earth's magnetosphere and interplanetary space, about 40,000 miles (65,000 km) above the earth, marked by an abrupt decrease in the earth's magnetic induction.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- magpie goose — a black-and-white gooselike bird, Anseranas semipalmatus, of Australia, believed to be the most primitive waterfowl in existence.
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- mammographic — Of, or pertaining to, mammography.
- marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.